Interesting post, JD. If I might turn the focus around, what have been the very best of the pianos you've heard? >From the last post, the best of the group seems to be Kawai (which I don't necessarily disagree with). I'd be interested in what others might think of as the "best of the best"... before or after tweaking. Brian > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:37:55 +0100 > To: pianotech at ptg.org > From: JD at Pianomaker.co.uk > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Steinway bashing (snip) > > Nevertheless the tonal characteristics of a "good" Steinway make it > the best choice, I think, for any concert hall. I've never heard a > good Yamaha, I hate the Bösendorfer. Kawai is a fine piano but their > marketing hasn't been good enough. The Fazioli is beautifully made > but seems to lack something in the sparkle department, etc. etc. > > The greatest shame is that for years and years nearly all the others > have been taking the Steinway sound as the standard. It is only on > the rare occasions that you hear music performed on a very different > instrument that you realise that the Steinway sound is not the only > possible flavour, and in many cases it is far from the most suitable. > The great pianists of 100 years ago most certainly did not all prefer > the Steinway, even when it was a lot better than it is today. > > JD > > _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100706/79b6167f/attachment.htm>
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